The rules we hold ourselves to.

The corporation holds to The Baptist Faith and Message (2000). Every division teaches and publishes in keeping with it, and the Spiritual Director reviews its material for faithfulness.

Our work is Christian, and we say so: Bible Guide publishes the Scriptures, and Church Family serves congregations. Redeemer Pathways, the one division that works with children in person, opens and closes every session with prayer, and parents are told so before their child joins. A child may pray with us or simply listen. No child has to pray, profess faith or belong to a church to take part, and none is treated differently for it.

No adult is ever alone with a young person, and no adult drives one alone. Every adult who serves passes a Level 2 fingerprint background check and has been known to the community for six months. Any suspicion of abuse is reported at once to the police and the Florida Abuse Hotline. No session runs until the policy is adopted, a safeguarding lead is appointed and every adult is screened.

Based on the sample policy the IRS publishes. Every director and officer discloses any interest, leaves the room for decisions it touches, and signs a statement each year.

Anyone, inside the corporation or outside it, can raise a concern about wrongdoing with the President or an independent director, anonymously if they wish, and no one is punished for a concern raised in good faith. Anyone who suspects a child is being harmed reports it first to the Florida Abuse Hotline.

Every record has a set period: the governing records, tax filings and anything involving a child are kept permanently, and most financial and donor records for seven years. Nothing is destroyed once a lawsuit or investigation is in view.

Money, listed shares and equipment a program has asked for are accepted as a matter of course. Property worth more than $2,500, real estate and gifts with conditions need the board’s approval first. A gift that conflicts with the corporation’s purposes or faith, or would give the giver control, is declined.

Each restricted gift is recorded with the giver, the date, the amount and the restriction in the giver’s own words, and its balance is tracked until it is spent as the giver intended.

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